ACNS stands for Automated Copyright Notice
System. Itís an open source, royalty free system that
universities, ISPís, or anyone that handles large
volumes of copyright notices can implement on their network to increase the
efficiency and reduce the costs of responding to the notices. The system is a
flexible design so that it can be implemented on just about any network, using
already available network equipment such as routers and packet shapers. It is
not intrusive and does not invade the privacy of the networks users, and it letís the university or ISP enforce its own policies with
regard to network abuse and copyright infringement. The system could also be
utilized to handle abuse complaints, viruses, worms, trojans,
and other malicious network activity. Below you can find links to more
information about ACNS and the XML that enables it.

Changes from version 0.6: a TimeStamp field was added to Content.Item.
The purpose of this is to differentiate older infringments
from recent infringments, so that recidivist activity
is thoroughly reported.